Peter Dye

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Emerald Coast Review Book Cover

Page from book: In the Banana Boat’s Wake by Peter Dye

I was proud to read from my story “In The Banana Boat’s Wake” published as the opening piece in the 2025 Emerald Coast Review.

It connects my grandfather’s work with United Fruit Co. and the life of my former student, an undocumented nursing major from Guatemala.

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Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

On Tuesday, President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that it was "very important" for foreign students to study in the U.S.

Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government Irish novelist Sally Rooney could be arrested under the Terrorism Act after saying she intends to use proceeds from her work to support Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK last month, a legal expert has warned. Meanwhile, No 10 said that supporting the group was an offence under the act, after Rooney had made her pledge. Continue reading...

Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action

A black and white photo of a Key West police car and an officer standing beside it, her back to the camera

An anti-ICE poster in Key West that reads "Key West is too hot for ICE"

“People were disappearing everywhere.”

—Zack Ford details the aftermath of the July 8 decision by the Key West City Commission to allow the local police force to assist with ICE arrests, revoking the city’s sanctuary status.

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Here's my piece on how U.S. higher education's economic argument for international students lost its oomph

www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

When you strip away humanity

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests By Leah Greenberg, Indivisible Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director

Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?

These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. So let’s take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings.

The best way to incentivize peaceful protesting is:
1) don’t arrest peaceful protestors
2) don’t shoot peaceful protestors
3) cover peaceful protestors
4) prioritize the demands of peaceful protestors instead of corporate interests

Babies can only have milk. They can’t even have water. Since Israel is banning all aid including baby formula, these babies will die. And since Israel is also starving everyone in Gaza, moms can’t nurse their babies either. They’re just watching their babies die as they die to.

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

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Immigrants are being abducted without due process, while private prisons get a massive payday. And our tax dollars are footing the bill.

The U.S. already operates the largest immigration detention system in the world. Now, the Trump administration is pushing to spend $45 billion in taxpayer dollars to expand it to an unprecedented scale. If funded, this plan would roll out a sweeping new system for incarcerating immigrants — one unlike anything we've seen in the history of the United States.

Who stands to benefit from this plan? Private prison executives. Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group — who already make millions from locking up immigrants — are poised to rake in even more profits. And they’re not hiding their excitement. One executive even called Trump’s mass deportation agenda “one of the most exciting periods in my career.”

Immigration detention centers are notorious for inhumane conditions. Increased enforcement actions are leading to even worse conditions, including inadequate medical care and insufficient access to toilets and water. To make matters worse, the Trump administration recently eliminated the oversight offices responsible for monitoring ICE detention and managing cases — removing one of the few checks on this abusive system. Pouring more money into immigrant detention will only lead to more harm.

The Trump administration wants to spend tens of billions of dollars to expand immigrant detention to levels never seen before in U.S. history.

We refuse to stand by.

Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward

Detaining immigrants for their political beliefs is designed to silence dissent and intimidate all of us from speaking out.

It's inhumane, unconstitutional, and a threat to our fundamental rights. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Opinion | The Emergency Is Here (Gift Article) Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The Emergency Is Here.

With @asharangappa.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thous...

ICE is transferring innocent people to torture prison in El Salvador.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Also a State Department official said **300** visas of international students who protested against the war in Gaza have been revoked.

“They are betting that when you hear Mahmoud’s name, or the word “Palestinian,” the parts of you that make you a thinking and rational and caring person will switch off, and you will believe the worst about him, and you will turn a blind eye to these grave violations of his rights.”

Nothing justifies disappearing a person. History is riddled with those who thought their proximity to power protected them until it didn’t. Those justifying Khalil’s disappearance are traitors to our country. I don’t say this lightly, and I mean it sincerely.

A cover graphic with the title Know Your Rights: Expedited Removal Expansion and Conozca Sus Derechos: Ampliación de la Deportación Acelerada

*New English & Spanish #KYR*

DHS has expanded its use of the 'expedited removal' process. Undocumented community members are now at greater risk of being put in a rapid deportation process - without the right to appear in front of an immigration judge.

What changed & how people can prepare 🧵

“Democrats don’t need to overcomplicate this. They just need to throw a punch.

…we need to channel our anger into real leverage: organizing, persuading, forcing the political system to respond to us on our terms.”

“‘When someone wants to downplay a book being banned, they won’t call it a ban,’ Friedman said. ‘That’s why certain cases don’t make the news.’

…will often be referred to as an appropriate ‘removal’ or ‘withdrawal’ of material. This has a far less threatening ring to it than ‘censorship’.”

Netflix’s new adaptation of this beloved book is pretty much perfect ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netfl...

I went into this with extreme skepticism, but wow. They really pulled this one off.

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

The Flirt A t forty-five she has become what she never was before: a flirt. A holder of eye contact, …

oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss... I loved this story by @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social. I had my suspicions about where it was going and ended up being beautifully surprised. Great read.

“The Leper,” by Lee Chang-dong The prosecutor spoke without emotion: “Your father’s been charged with espionage. Spying under orders from the North Korean puppet regime.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m going to use bluesky in 2025 to catalogue my fiction reads if nothing else. “The Leper” by Lee Chang Dong was a great read. Relevance to past, present, and future.

I appreciate that—trying to allow myself to still be surprised by how the story unravels